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Someone with livestock might be willing to take it off your hands. I know back home in Vermont the old time farmers complain about not being able to get shavings-sawdust from mills anymore. All that stuff is used to make pellets for stoves now, where as it used to be free bedding for the calves etc etc etc.
Just an off the wall thought....

I have used it in my veggie garden for years, and have HUGE tomatoes !! I empty my dust collection bag into a compost pile 2 times a year or so, and you should taste my tomatoes . . .. but it'll cost ya

I've actually used oak sawdust in the smoker when I ran out of wood chips and was too, uh, busy to go get more. I moistened a few heaping handfuls with some beer, and threw a clump or two in when it needed it. Pretty good results.

The 'Furniture Guys' used shavings to rub down furniture when cleaning the finish with Napha. IIRC, they liked it better than steel wool because it would remove the finish without scratching the wood underneath.
I think they also used it to wipe off stains, but it has been years since I saw their shows.

aaron, this is what i've used too - parafin.
no specific recipe, just grab an old egg carton - the paper kind
fill each section with sawdust
melt wax
pour wax into each section
be careful with the hot wax

I have a high composition of clay in the soil here, that's why it's Clay county here in Missouri. Sawdust first goes into the flower beds and garden. Any left gets sprinkled into the lawn. Another note that I follow and I guess it is right, is that sawdust takes nitrogen out of the soil to decompose, so you have to supplement with nitrogen fertilizer, which I do anyways, so can't prove or disprove that statement.

Been around power equipment all my life and can still count to twenty one nakey